This convenient softcover manual is designed specifically for courtroom use. It offers attorneys and judges alike many trial-tested features that not only provide fast, accurate answers to evidentiary questions but also guide the user to the underlying authorities and secondary sources for further research.

Written by Eileen A. Scallen and Glen Weissenberger, two of the nation's most respected evidence scholars, California Evidence Courtroom Manual incorporates complete coverage of the California Evidence Code and California evidence case law.

Features Include:

Complete text of the California Evidence Code

Summaries of the current status of California law on each evidentiary issue

Weissenberger, Glen

Glen Weissenberger is a recognized legal authority on evidence, civil commitment, and the insanity defense. As an author, he has penned numerous works including Weissenberger's Federal Evidence, which is frequently cited in law review articles and texts on evidence law. He has been the catalyst behind the development of more than 200 titles that are utilized extensively in legal education. Mr. Weissenberger was the Dean at DePaul University College of Law from July 2002 to July 2009. He also previously served as a professor of law at the University of Cincinnati, where he taught for 27 years. During his tenure at the University of Cincinnati, he served as a special counsel to the university president, as director of the university's Center for Studies in Professional Skills, and as the Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Ohio State Bar Foundation Outstanding Research Award, the University of Cincinnati Faculty Achievement Awards, and the University of Cincinnati Jerome P. Goldman Prize for Teaching Excellence. A prolific author, Mr. Weissenberger has penned many works found in textbooks and classrooms across the nation.

Eileen A. Scallen

Eileen A. Scallen was a professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law from 1989 to 2000. She also served as associate academic dean at Hastings from 1996 to 1998. In the fall of 2000, she joined the faculty of William Mitchell College of Law, in her home state of Minnesota. She has served as the chair of the Evidence Section of the American Association of Law Schools and has taught and published widely in the areas of evidence, civil procedure, and legal argumentation.